Discovery and reproducibility: Your community will have a single entry point where all research products, of any type (literature, datasets, software, workflows, protocols), are gathered together and linked with semantic relationships. Researchers can find a research product in the gateway (e.g. a research dataset) and easily find out everything related to it and that is needed to re-use it, but also to replicate and reproduce a research activity (e.g. software used to process the dataset, the journal article where the research is described).
Sharing: Making research data, software, methods and scientific workflows available “as soon as possible” in trusted repositories is one of the “mantra” of Open Science. With a Community Gateway you can suggest trusted repositories, journals and Zenodo communities to your researchers. If your community has integrated Zenodo into a digital experiment platform, researchers no longer bear the burden of manually publishing their research products, while it is also easier for them to publish different versions, which reflect different stages of their activities.
Credit for all: scientific literature is only the tip of the iceberg. With a Community Gateway you say to the members of your community that everything they produce is relevant and that they are credited for it.
Awareness: Thanks to dedicated pages of the Community Gateway you can suggest best practices to the researchers of the community. Open Science experts of OpenAIRE will be available to assist you.
Open to the world: Research communities, organisations, universities and their alliances often strive to gain the visibility they deserve with funding agencies or research staff. With a Community gateway they get the tools to discover, assess and outreach their findings.